The Social Evolution of Indonesia: The Asiatic Mode of Production and Its LegacyAt a fairly early stage of socialism's penetration into the Afro-Asian world, a handful of European social democrats established an Indian Social-Democratic Association (lSDV). They did so in a country, Indonesia, that was economically little developed and far away from any of the centres of European socialism and Asiatic radical-national ism. The ISDV was soon able to bring its influence to bear on sec tions of the urban proletariat and to build up an Indonesian revol utionary movement. This occurred in sharp competition with a nascent nationalist leadership, and then without the usual inter mediary role played by radicalizing groups of native intelligentsia. In this way, Dutch social democrats laid the foundations for one of the first communist parties in Asia and Africa, a party which was des tined to become one of the few communist mass parties of the Third World. However, in contrast to the major communist movements of China-Vietnam, this Indonesian party was to demonstrate a basic weakness: successive and catastrophic defeats. ! If we leave out Japan, the only non-Western country where a capi talist industrial revolution occurred, we see that foreign and particu larly Western minorities frequently did playa dominant role in the initial and formative phases of the socialist and workers' movements of the Afro-Asiatic world. |
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SOUTHEAST ASIA 1 Van Leur Western Penetration and the Degree of Southeast Asian Development | 1 |
Asiatic Variations vii | 2 |
Southeast Asia | 3 |
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abangan agrarian Agricultural Involution aliran Anderson areas army Asian Asiatic Bastin and Benda BIES bourgeoisie bureaucratic capital capitalist central centre century Chesneaux China Chinese class differentiation colonial communist movement Communist Party comprador continued cultural dominant Dutch economic elements elite Emerging Southeast Asia entrepreneurs Feith forces foreign Fryer Geertz Golkar Guided Democracy Henk Sneevliet History Indian Indo Indonesian Communism Indonesian society Indonesian Trade industrial influence intelligentsia Islam Java Javanese Javanist labour land leaders mass movement Masyumi McVey military Minangkabau modern Mortimer Muslim Nahdatul Ulama nationalist neo-priyayi nesian organization particularly Pasisir peasants pemuda penetration Philippines political position pre-capitalist priyayi production radical relations revolution role rulers rural santri Sarekat Sarekat Islam Sartono Schrieke sector social socialist socio-economic Soekarno Southeast Asia stagnation strata strong structures Sukarno Sumatra tendencies Thailand traditional urban Vietnam Vietnamese village community weak Wertheim Western workers zone